The dog came through surgery just fine. Her bladder was almost completely full of stones, so the vet said he thinks we'll "be seeing a totally different dog soon." Since the only sign of illness was her incessant need to pee before, I'm hoping the big change will mean my carpet won't be stained anymore....
Because she'll be spending the night in the hospital, I haven't actually paid for the surgery yet and ended up with a no-spend day today. Kind of a nice little treat considering tomorrow I'll be shelling out $1,400 to the vet.
Dog update and no-spend day
August 4th, 2008 at 09:42 pm
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:41 pm 1217893304
err, don't flame me. I really am wondering how.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:43 am 1217897016
cptacek,
I don't know if you have any pets yourself. If you don't, I can understand why you would think $1400 is a lot of money. But for some people (myself included) a pet is like a family member. So, spending $1400 to help them get feeling better is worth every penny + more. Pets give us SO much more than we can ever repay them.
August 5th, 2008 at 01:20 am 1217899235
August 5th, 2008 at 01:59 am 1217901577
I was going to write you this message:
I should explain that my dog is only 4 years old and perfectly healthy otherwise and still has lot of life left in her. If it had been my 12 year old dog with the same problem, I would have considered not doing the surgery.
Also, if I didn't have the $1,400 in savings, I would have thought twice about it.
But, in reality, the fact is that I probably would have spent the money on either of my two dogs because they are like family and the condition was life threatening. (Yes, that would have meant I would be debting in the second case, but honestly something like this probably would make it OK in my mind -- however wrong that might be to some of you.)
My mom has a 7 year old dog who needed $4,000 worth of cataract surgery last month. Because she could afford it and because this dog is her "life" for the most part, she opted to spend the money and get the surgery even though the cataracts weren't life-threatening (assuming the dog didn't blindly fall off a cliff or something).
Personally, I probably would have bought the dog a little white cane and hoped for the best.... However, in my dog's case, it was an easy decision to make in favor of spending the money, which fortunately we had in savings.
August 5th, 2008 at 04:02 am 1217908959
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